Oooops?
NO millions of people he boasted wanted seats?
Couldn’t even fill the house?
All those pictures of crowds did NOT materialise INSIDE….
Yo Donald?
Your bad week continues!
President Donald Trump was hoping to inject new energy into his 2020 re-election bid on Saturday after a three-month hiatus from the campaign trail, but smaller-than-expected turnout forced the campaign to rejigger his schedule.
Trump skipped a planned appearance outside of the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., which Campaign Spokesman Tim Murtaugh blamed on “radical protestors, coupled with a relentless onslaught from the media,” who “attempted to frighten off the President’s supporters.”
Reporters on the scene, however, denied seeing large numbers of people turned away from the overflow stage. Inside the 20,000-person BOK Center, meanwhile, whole sections of the arena remained empty.
That’s a blow to Trump and his Republican allies, who hoped the rally would kick start a new phase of the campaign after a politically brutal spring. National and swing-state polling show Trump trailing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, amid mounting criticism of the president’s handling of both the coronavirus pandemic and the protests against police brutality sweeping the nation.
Trump had bragged earlier in the week that the campaign had received nearly a million ticket requests for the rally.
“You are warriors!” the president told the crowd as he began his remarks. “We had some very bad people outside. They were doing bad things.”
The thousands of people in the arena, many of whom lined up days earlier, erupted. T-shirts emblazoned with “Trump 2020,” “MAGA,” and “defend the police” dotted the crowd, but few wore the face masks the campaign provided.
The president then launched into a 90-minute speech that hit familiar targets — “Sleepy Joe” Biden, the media, the “radical left,” and the Washington, D.C. swamp — while labeling his supporters as insurgents, ready to take on the establishment and every group of people who oppose his administration.
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The entire scene was soaked in controversy. The nation’s largest indoor gathering in three months was a rejection of the Trump administration’s own warnings about public events…
A supporter sits alone in the top sections of the BOK Center as Vice President Pence speaks before President Trump at Saturday’s rally in Tulsa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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top image…President Donald Trump takes the stage at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., on Sunday. | M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO
I wondered how the media would cover the Trump Tulsa rally?
The answer is another bad thing for Trump during a bad week….
“Don’t Call it a Comeback–Trunp campaign should be ready for firings”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/donald-trump-tulsa-rally-crowd-empty-seats
Brad and Donnie got punked by a bunch of teenagers.
I mean talk about leading with your chin?
Hyperbolic bragging that is now demonstrably shown to be false ?
Brad Parscale might be on the way out?
Or maybe even the Trump rabble is starting to wise up?
I wonder if the next rally will even happen.
Then again, who is going to tell Trump to change?
They’re going to have to figure out a way to distribute tickets for starters.
A million here …. a thousand there???🙄
Wonder how those people who stood in line for several days feel?
I mean they could have just walked in two minutes before it started and grabbed a seat.
Used?
But enjoying it for the same guy Howard Stern said Trump wouldn’t spend 10 seconds with?
…. The Tulsa Fire Marshal told the Washington Post that were only about 6,100 people in the arena for President Trump’s campaign rally last night, even though the space can hold 19,000…..
Politicalwire
Kyle Griffin
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Fox News’ Chris Wallace: “Mercedes, please don’t filibuster. We’re showing pictures here and it shows big, empty areas. Frankly, it makes you guys look silly when you deny the reality of what happened.”
Probably wasn’t a pleasant ride back to DC on board Air Force One….
I mean the WHOLE upper deck section was just about empty!
And?
The SDNY firing story is STILL running on the front pages and on twitter with virus stories !
This is NOT 2016 folks
Trump is a very exhausting personality ,even for his fans.
Sycophant Lindsay Graham describes hm as a “handful.”
After awhile, even avid fans reach the limits of their endurance.
Oh they’ll still vote for him ,but with the virus out there (and despite their act of nonconcern , some of those old boys still might consider prudence the better part of valor,) , perhaps their admiration may start being more from afar than in person?
If you want some comedy read Jeff Sessions tweet fellating Trump on his failed rally.
As much as I loathe Trump I love how Republicans he takes a shit on show how little self respect they have by sucking up to him again and again.
It really shows how pathetic they are.
At the moment, Trump is busy using his sharpie to draw people into the empty seats of the arena.
He will claim they were black too.
The Lincoln Projcct continues to troll Trump better than Biden or Democrats ever can:
It’s easier for groups not directly tied to the candidate to do all the dirty work of driving the opponent’s negatives up.